Zephaniah Clifford

Zephaniah Clifford (1961-) was an African-American Baptist minister and evangelist from Hope, Arkansas. In 2008, he arrived in The Bronx, New York City with the goal of preaching to passers-by about repenting so that they could avoid scabies and other tortures in Hell. One disgruntled passerby shot him once in the stomach with a pistol, and Clifford limped away before collapsing on the sidewalk, where he was hit once with a baseball bat. Clifford clung onto life and was later taken by the paramedics, who healed him. He returned to Arkansas after the shooting incident.